@helencrozier Thanks, Helen! Let us know how it goes and how we can be helpful. We're passionate about successful communities and have learned a ton along the way :-)

@allysondowney That's exactly what we're aiming to do: give community entrepreneurs the ability to see if an idea has legs before spending a cent. It's hopefully our one small but important contribution to making technology entrepreneurship and access to network effects more inclusive.

@eriktorenberg, great question. We’ve invested the past few years quietly and relentlessly optimizing the engagement loops that make a niche network instantly valuable to new and returning members on mobile. What’s different about a Mightybell Network is that we are focused on how people who start as strangers build relationships with each on mobile. This is deceptively hard to get right. To give us the most time to nail it, we partnered with companies like Intuit and organizations like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build a platform for engaging niche networks for small business owners, the self-employed and teachers, respectively. Yet, despite being quiet, we would still get someone writing in almost daily to ask for different pieces of a complete community product for entrepreneurs: their own domain, landing page, native mobile apps, member categories, onboarding, branding, rich analytics, access to member data, as well as the option to charge for membership or court potential sponsors. After hearing the same asks over and over, we just built it. We put together all the pieces and launched the complete package on Monday. It's been a crazy few months. :-) We’re proud to support great community entrepreneurs like Randy and Gerard (their story’s here: https://mightybell.com/community...) with communities that need to exist in the world. Now they have everything they need in a single service to ensure their niche network stays strong, healthy and sustainable. We can't wait to see what other entrepreneurs do with the service from here.

@ginab It's all about community... @pmarca has said something like: 'many companies think they are in the business of building software, when what they are in is the business of building communities'

@masters212 thank you, Rachel! We couldn't agree more.

@jiakeliu our approach for this type of use case would be to have the host post the news/info. Not sure that gets you to the same result, but it might. I'll also check out the feature and if I can offer any other ideas. We haven't heard this exact result until now, so thank you for expanding our thinking.

@ginab It functions very much like an announcement thread in a forum. For your approach, can the host disable commenting/user interaction in the post?

@jiakeliu ah, got it. We have featured posts in the feed which is our version of the function. You can see an example in one of our networks here: https://www.ownit.com/communitie.... We don't shut down comments, in part because we've enjoyed the conversations that come from the posts. Thanks again for the feedback and ideas!

@ginab Kudos Gina! Absolutely love it. Would love to learn a bit more and how you guys could potentially help my business. Get in touch through the site?

@agreenwaldhq That's perfect. Operators are standing by. :-)

@ginab Congrats. I was an early Mightybell host and have always enjoyed your approach to building communities. This version just takes the game to whole other level. Great stuff!

@303 Thanks, Justin!

@ginab We @ moxiapps.com just signed up with three accounts -- using it for our swishapp.com community --- really solved all of our problems and consolidated our efforts from a fragmented engagement approach... we're using it for feedback, handing beers for bugs, and polling our users.

@srebalaji Thank you!

@nickfassler great question. I'm glad you asked. We've organized our Entrepreneur plans to support community entrepreneurs from idea to revenue to ultimately investing in and growing the business. Our free Starter plan come with access to the Mightybell native app, so any community entrepreneur on Mightybell can take advantage of mobile push notifications. This means if you are just starting out, you can see if your idea has legs on mobile before spending a cent. Then, with our Indie plan, you can charge for membership and access deep, actionable analytics for potential sponsorship to generate revenue and momentum for your community. At any point, you can upgrade to our Professional plan where you can have your own branded native mobile apps on iOS and Android. The Professional plan is really designed for those entrepreneurs who would otherwise have to build their own custom apps, a six-or-seven figure investment with a ton of risk. Randy Taylor and Gerard Scarpaci, the founders of Hairbrained, the largest network of craft hairdressers, were faced with this exact decision to use Mightybell or build their own custom app. Here's their story: https://mightybell.com/community.... Hope that helps. And, again, thanks for asking. We appreciate it.

@roamlocally Thanks, Paul! You can absolutely tap 3rd party sponsors for your niche network on Mightybell. As for integrating with blogs, there are a number of different ways to do it. Feel free to drop us a note at strategy (at) mightybell (dot) com and we're happy to help!

@anant_garg absolutely -- strategy@mightybell.com. And thank you for the kind words. We appreciate it!

@neilsandhu Thanks, Neil! We appreciate the kind words.

@jeskad Thank you!

@bruno_rms Bruno, thanks for the kind words and giving Mightybell a spin. We love your evangelism. Two quick responses on the UX front: + Changing roles. It's definitely on our list of small tweaks to make. + For the newsfeed, three things to keep in mind: First, the Discovery page (click in the top search bar) is the quick overview of what's trending now for those who don't want to scroll. Second, the newsfeed is personalized for each member by Topics they care about and members like them. This means they don't have to scroll through everything to find things that are relevant. With mobile attention spans, we have to ensure the feed is instantly relevant to each member. And we do. :-) Third and finally, the vast majority of activity and traffic is happening on mobile - web and apps. For the ipad and laptop experiences, there is whitespace, but significantly less on smaller screens. Given this, we chose to keep the UX consistent across devices, so you learn it once and use it the same way everywhere. Appreciate the feedback and look forward to more, as you go. Thanks!

@ginab Thanks Gina! Awesome. Last question. Is it possible to change the language? We're from Brazil and would be great to change every text or button according to our country. Many of our community don't speak english very well! Wish you the best! ps: 99 month to 3k month O.o Big step haha

@bruno_rms Bruno - it's on the roadmap, but we don't have a date target yet. Thanks!

@marissadipasq Thank you, Marissa. We appreciate you being a part of the journey.